Improvement in sheep-eack and mow combined



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Letters Patent No. 68,191, dated ugust 27, 1867. l

IMPROVEMENT IN SHEEP-RACAND MOW COMBINED.

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TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN HARMAN, of McConnellsville, Morgan county,State of Ohio, have invented an |Improved Sheep-Ruck und Mow Combined;und I do hereby decla-re the following to be an exact d'esoripti/""W`thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings Aand totheletters of reference marked the.'l makingD n. part of thisspecification, in which- Figure 1 represents o front elevation of themow and rack.

Figure 2, a. cross-section of the same. A

The nature of my invention is the combination of u V-shaped rack,formedof wooden rollers or rounds, with a frame above, constructed witha. sloping roof, und un opening across the wholelength of the framework,which is built firmly as a. mow` to hold tlie'huy required for a. wholeyenr for feeding sheep and keeping the hay nice and clean, and no wastebelow to collect and soil the sheep.

A represents the V-shaped rack, formed of rounds or rollers s et endwisein n. solid scantling, and o'i width apart suicient to allow the hay tobe drawn through by the sheep when feeding. Above this I have zt'framebox or mow, B, with an opening, C, along the whole front, and n.slanting roof, D, incliniug buck, so as to preserve the hay from thewea-ther. The length of the mow'und rack is intended to be twenty feetlong, eleven feet high,.a.nd four wide, so as to contain one ton of hayto feed thirty-five sheep 'for a. year. The hay can be placed in themo'w when newly cut, and the opening C at top allows free passage of airthrough the hay to keep it from moulding or souring, whilst the shape ofthe mow, correspondiugvwith the length and width of the ruck, allows thehay to settle into the rack as fast as the sheep empty the ruck. Otherracks require filling every day; this does not, and saves much time andlabor. It can also be moved to any desirable loca-tin.

What I claim las my inventiontund desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construction and combination of the ruck A and mow B and opening C,as herein described, and for the purposes set forth. I I

JOHN HARMAN.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD.

